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Organization:
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Location:
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Short-term Missions / Volunteer Internship |
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Address:
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34/1 Jai Nagar 2nd Street
Chennai, 6300012India
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Great For:
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Great for Families, Great for Groups, Great for Teens, Great for Christians |
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Service Area(s):
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Adult Ministry, Business, Children and Youth Ministry, Counseling / Addiction / Recovery, Directly Serving People, Disabilities Ministry, Education, Fundraising, Health and Medicine, Homelessness and Housing, Indirectly Serving People, Management, Orphanage, Pastor / Preacher / Minister, Prayer Ministry, Sales/Marketing/Public Relations, Social Services |
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Skills:
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Fundraiser, Prayer Minister / Intercessor, Public Relations |
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Hourly
Commitment:
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5
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Commitment is per:
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Day
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Number of
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6
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Number of
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the Past Year:
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13
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One-time / Ongoing Position:
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Description
INTRODUCTION
Pastor Aquilah, the founder of this home says, “November 17, 1995, turned out to be a fatal day in my life. My only son, Timothy Babu died of brain fever at the of seventeen. I recall an incident which is still afresh in my mind. One day Babu brought a leper to our home and asked his mother to give him food and cloth. It was embarrassing for us to have a leper at our door and adviced Babu that we can give him food and cloth and send him away but he doesn’t have to enter into our house. Babu taught us a great lesson that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ touched lepers and never discriminated them. After his death, we realized that how much he had love for poor, despised, forsaken and forgotten in the society.”
The children home was started 15th June, 1996 in memory of Babu. The home was named A.P. Timothy Babu Children’s Home and formally registered in the year 1997. Today, 14 children (7 boys and 7 girls) are given full care. We are moving with an aim of extending care to hundred children by the end of May 2015. The home cares for street children, homeless children and orphans from all over the state of Tamilnadu, India.
VISION STATEMENT
The home is dedicated to promoting an awareness of God’s heart for the orphan and discovering God’s calling for His people to be a part of accomplishing His purposes for the care of orphans and poor children.
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless…. Psalm 81:13
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the home is to provide avenues for like-minded people to care for orphans locally, nationally, and internationally.
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. James 1:27
THE CONTEXT AND NEED
India has the second largest population in the world (1.3 billion), and there are more children under the age of fourteen in India than the entire population of the United States. 35% of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. 5,700,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS.
There are about 44 million destitute children and over 12 million orphan and abandoned children, yet there are only 5000 (0.04%) adoptions in India every year. About 90% of those abandoned are girls whose poor young mothers cannot afford to keep them. They face a bleak future as beggars, forced into prostitution or menial labor. While the Government of India reports about 20 million child laborers, other non-governmental organizations estimate the number to be closer to 50 million.
OBJECTIVES
To provide housing, food, clothing, education, and medical assistance to destitute children such as orphans, disabled, or distressed and abandoned children.
To glorify God by bringing up the children with Christian values in a family-oriented atmosphere.
To advocate for the promotion and protection of children's rights through sensitizing, monitoring and reporting cases of child abuse.
Requirements:
Do you require that volunteers for this position be
Christian?
No
Organizational Statement of Faith:
No
Group Minimum and Maximum
1 - 6
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